Welcome to Promics, a Research Unit of the German Research Foundation

Photorespiration
represents one of the major highways of plant primary metabolism,
enabling plants to thrive in the high-oxygen environment of our
present atmosphere.

The origin of this high-throughput
pathway has been traced back to cyanobacteria, which were the first
oxygen-producing prokaryotes and ancestors of plastids. In
present day plants, photorespiration is integrated in a much more
complex cellular metabolism.

Promics aims at a
better understanding of photorespiration in plants' life, environmental adaptation,
and evolution.